A new project led by the State Hygienic Lab will analyze the presence of environmental hazards in well water and households across the state. The award, which includes $728,016 in funding for the first year of the project, is one of six projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for statewide biomonitoring programs. Biomonitoring is the direct measurement of environmental chemicals...

The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC) is offering free lead testing for up to five Iowa elementary schools with older drinking water infrastructure, thanks to Grants to School Program funding that will provide up to $10,000 per school to cover the cost of the work. CHEEC is working with the Iowa State Hygienic Laboratory (SHL) to offer the testing...

The record-setting $588.8 million in external funding to the University of Iowa in FY19, which includes $467 million for research and scholarship, is helping faculty improve treatments for military veterans wounded in battle and develop better ways to teach K–12 students science and math, as well as fueling other areas of innovation and discovery. The UI saw particularly large increases in funding...

Grants and other funding that support University of Iowa research and scholarship reached an all-time high in FY19, bolstered in part by increased support from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). [Related: Record funding used to aid veterans, improve STEM education] Research funding from July 1, 2018, to June 30, 2019, rose 7%, or $32.4 million, to $467...

Researchers from the University of Iowa (UI) and Iowa State University (ISU) are building joint teams that will work to use gut bacteria to treat chronic diseases, improve weather forecasts for precision agriculture, and produce better vaccines against swine and avian flu. The three teams have each won two-year, $50,000 seed grants to help them develop their bioscience projects. This is the second...

It’s never too early to start strategizing about how to write a winning grant proposal that will get attention and bring in research funding. A long-respected program that helps faculty and other research team members do just that, the Write Winning Grant Proposals seminar, will be offered on the University of Iowa campus Oct. 25. The event will be presented by John D. Robertson, Ph.D., a managing...

The University of Iowa Center for Health Effects of Environmental Contamination (CHEEC), in collaboration with the UI Hydroinformatics Lab (UIHI Lab) and the Iowa Geological Survey (IGS), has developed an information system to assist the management of private wells in Iowa. The Iowa Well Forecasting System (IWFoS) is a publicly accessible web platform that allows users to view spatial information...

A root canal can be challenging under the best of circumstances, for the patient and the dentist. While the patient may be happily oblivious to the experience thanks to the miracle of modern-day anesthetics, the endodontist faces twin challenges while rooting around in your mouth: thoroughly and quickly cleaning and disinfecting the area being treated, and promoting rapid healing. A new instrument...

A new journal article by a senior licensing associate in the University of Iowa Research Foundation (UIRF) argues that academic tech transfer activities contribute enormously to society and the economy, and that diminishing funding of those efforts jeopardize U.S. dominance in research-based discovery and innovation. Writing in the June 2019 issue of les Nouvelles, the journal of the Licensing...

Liz Crooks has been named University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums director, effective June 1, after a year in the role on an interim basis. Pentacrest Museums includes the Old Capitol Museum and the UI Museum of Natural History. “I feel honored to be chosen as the permanent director for the museums and I’m eager to continue the work undertaken over the last year,” Crooks said. “I am grateful to the...